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Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170103023018/https://maartens.home.xs4all.nl/philosophy/Dictionary/S/Solipsism.htm
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8391956/
https://philarchive.org/archive/CHOEAP-2
https://yourbias.is/the-spotlight-effect
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tried-to-stage-coup-former-wh-adviser-fiona-hill-2021-1
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8391956/
https://philarchive.org/archive/CHOEAP-2
https://yourbias.is/the-spotlight-effect
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tried-to-stage-coup-former-wh-adviser-fiona-hill-2021-1
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41 Comments
@MentisWave
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMThe merch store "Taxation is Theft" sale shall continue until next high octane, which will be in roughly one week! ( https://mentiswave-merch.printify.me/ )
@VladLad
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMAs someone with autism I have the reverse problem that also causes me alot of troubles.
When I get asked a question I have to slow down and consider what their intention is behind asking that, basically I am trying to guess what answer the other side wants/expects me to provide. Very often I end up overthinking things because I think "Their intention cant possibly be this simple" and then it is
Most deadly are questions that are obviously baiting you to overthink. Ask me how Id feel if I didnt have breakfast that dah. I implode being asked questions like that because of the "it cant possible be this simple" mentality
@S1e73n
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI should recommend this to shortfatotaku
@bloodmancer4824
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMIf you can't prove that something exists, it's reasonable to say that you also can't prove that nothing exists.
@adolfstalin5257
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMMaybe, but it cant be disproved either. I even sketched out an ethical theory of it in one of my books
@glitchy000
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PM18:07
Wouldn’t claiming you can’t know what other people are thinking utilizing solipsistic reasoning?
@joepemberton9031
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI believe in solipsism but it's somebody else
@HIMMBelljuvo
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMWomen seem to be especially prone to this. I can't tell you how many times I've seen or been subject to the same kind of irrational solipsistic rage your boss exhibited from women. And if you want to see just how solipsistic women can get just look at how they perform the POV TikTok meme vs. how men do it. A lot of them really don't get the point of that meme
@Gutleib-zf5so
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMdid mentiswave do a video about solipsism and hoped to try to connect this philosophy to the political left?
Saying that all or most left people are egocentric?
@blaster.m1943
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMSpooked
@JasonGodwin69
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMJust saw a libped (they are all steineps) say "Is "wokeness" when conservatives destroy their nike sneakers on social media?". It reminded me there is only one cure for wokeness. You can't reason with them.
@DuskfulDawn-e6i
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMHearing all this just reminds me of my family sense my mom and brother are like this. My mom flips out whenever she vaguely points that something and said's "Pick it up" and I get confuse at what exactly she wants. And my brother once tried gaslit me on who started a argument because he thought I started it simply because he "knew" I was thinking of something that would've started it. And it wasn't until I kept asking "who said what" that I eventually found the starting point and corrected him that I actually wasn't thinking of something that would've started a argument. And that he only thought that because his idea of me was like 5 or 7 years in the past
@huguesdepayens807
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMThe game he's playing, Zone of Enders, is actually really good and you can emulate it easy they're ps2 games.
@DarkJustice223
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMAi art 😡
@JM-yq9gd
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMExoplanets are hypothetical, as is the entirety of astrophysics, thus disproving your entire point at a basal level. Try again.
@Waterenjoyer1308
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMMilei messed up…..
@damianwootten
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI don’t know, I view the world more through an Objectivist lens. I think Reality is concrete completely independent from my senses. I think that was the reason Ayn Rand kind of came up with her own philosophy because I think Solipsism exist because it’s deeply ingrained into our Western philosopher’s psyche. The Plutocratic view of the Universe instead of the Aristotelian view. It was influencers like Immanuel Kant that influenced Karl Marx who was later influenced by Hegel. “Reality is the mind reflected back on itself” as Karl Marx would say drawing from Gnostic beliefs and is a form of Ancient Atomism, which means Karl Marx wasn’t an Atheist. He states that clearly in his forgotten work, The Difference between
THE DEMOCRITEAN and EPICUREAN
PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE. It isn’t an accident that people are taught Solipsism. It’s by design.
@dabba_dabba
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMOne skill that is underappreciated is being able to figure out other people's perspective, how they think and what they know/don't know wnd then guiding them to a different perspective using that knowledge. It seems like solipsism makes us very difficult as well as makes people narcissistic
@bobkiller572
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMThere is definitely some excellent points made here and I'd like to share my experiences going down the rabbit hole of solipsism as an open discussion.
I'd like to preface by saying there was psychedelics involved so do take with a grain of salt.
Way back in the ye olde college days I went on a mind bending, face melting, needle point type of "journey" leading to complete derealization and in turn some insights that I later discovered fell into the category of solipsism. I'm sure many people have already discovered that one's own experience of reality is entirely filtered through physical perception faculties(eyes, ears, nose, etc.). So, all information that a person has ever learned throughout their life is coming through their senses. This had lead me to believe that all information I had internalized through my life(all memories included) was a product of the subjective lens called perception, so all information is in some way subjective at the base level. It's hard to prove to yourself that objective reality is a thing, especially under the influence. This posed some questions to be answered: Can I even trust any information/memories if they're all subjective? Does it matter? If I were to manually hijack my own senses, could I create a reality to exist in by feeding my own information into the perception feed? If so, what would happen to the existence/experience/life that I currently reside in? Would it just cease to exist as I step into this newly created domain or would my former self become catatonic?
I realize some of this may be unfalsifiable but I still think it's fun to think about
Anyway, I think there are cooler approaches to solipsism than thinking you are god or something whacky like that and if there are any brave souls willing to become schizophrenic and manually control their perception to see what happens, please do share haha
Thanks for reading and feel free to debunk, refute, or answer in any way you'd like
@austinthompson583
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMsolipsism is true I'm the only consciousness, your just my consciousness trying to trick me by telling me I'm not the only consciousness when I'm the only consciousness
@eyeviewer7298
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI never understood how solipsism changed anything. When you try to conclude something in regard to it, it always seems like a manipulation tactic; like trying to convince me I don't live something I feel like living. Even if solipsism existed, it would be unconsequential from a pragmatic viewpoint.
@brendangolledge8312
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMIf someone says something totally different than anything I've ever thought of, how is that not evidence against solipsism? How do I explain studying physics which apparently other people understand, but which is mind-bending and difficult to me? The only explanation I can think of is that I'm a god with enormous reasoning capacity, but for some reason, I'm deceiving myself into being unaware of this so that I can role play being an idiot.
@sirfrancis8732
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMThe only time I use solipsism in an argument is when I get fed up and jokingly call my opponent a figment of my imagination
@joshuareed8243
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI think a good counter point to the "I can't measure X therefore X doesn't exist" is the blackhole and several other theoretical physics ideas that weren't proven and measured until long after they were established as fact. Dark matter and Dark energy are also both in that category. Neither of them can reasonably be measured outside of guesses, we can't detect it with modern day technology, and it's possible we never do detect it. That doesn't mean those things don't exist, only that we can't measure it right now.
@bossman1217
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMThe scientist outside my brain vat programmed this video to mislead me, not today nerds!
@Trizzer89
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMIt would be very strange if your parents dont actually exist.
@Trizzer89
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMSolipsism is the opposite of the reality. All of the world is connected
@BonziBUDDY
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMMore like Slopsism lol
@Don-ds3dy
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PM"I support freedom of speech"
="You just want to say the n-word"
"I want a wife, a kid, and a house"
="You want slaves"
"I want to keep my job and keep the economy stable"
="You want to separate families!!!"
@DonVigaDeFierro
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI consider myself a "weak" materialist (read: Not a Marxist), because to me, the real world exists. Even if it's a simulation or a dream or whatever, I am in it. I am part of it. Therefore, it's real to me.
But there is a problem, and it's that of perception. I'm a computer scientist and informatics engineer. If we want to make computers think and gain self-awareness, we need to feed them accurate and objective data about reality… But what data?
Say, there are many subjects who are tasked with building a computer. What will they want their computer to remember? If I throw a physics book on the ground and they see it, they will have gotten different ideas:
– A fellow engineer may look at it and think nothing of it. "It's a physics book. Note that down."
– A dog may sniff it, and then move on. "It's a thing. Smells bad. It's not food. Note that down."
– A Tumblrite may see it and recoil in disgust. "It's a disgusting tool of white European heteronormative patriarchal colonial neurotypical sexist racist misogynist oppression. I don't want my computer to remember any of that."
– A /pol/tard may see it and start praising it. "Common western WHITE EVROPEAN W." (The author is Jewish).
– A gorilla may grab it, play with it and tear it down. "It's a thing. Looks good to hit with, but on closer inspection, it's too weak. Note that down."
Every subject remembers extremely different information about the same experience. We can't make the computer remember all of those, because there's an infinite number of experiences and most of them contradict each other. So, what do we do? Where the fuck do we even start?
When I started to get into this whole thing, AI was but a crazy dream and this was literally just a thought experiment. But we are seeing this very experiment unfold now in real time with ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, Copilot, Llama, and all that shit…
What is the best AI? The one that provides the most accurate information, regardless of the personal and political affiliations of its creators. There IS a reality outside of one's minds, and the role of AI should be to provide the most accurate picture of this reality, not say "Sorry, I'm not comfortable discussing this topic." This shouldn't even be discussed. AI is a tool, and you want tools to be as useful as possible. The objective study of reality should have no room for personal feelings and beliefs. We are always wrong about everything. That's why we invented tools as simple as rulers.
I reject idealism because there are plenty of shared individual experiences to reject the notion of the non-existence of reality, but I reject materialism because experience is really the only thing that we have to prove the existence of this reality. There is no convincing argument to prove that "something" exists. You can't prove the existence of anything by parting from mere logical premises.
We will never find the truth of reality, but every lie we fabricate to explain it must get us closer to shining a light on it. We will never be right about anything, but we always must aspire to be less wrong than before, and this is a purely individual pursuit. Nobody can think for you and reason for you why something is the way it is, if everything that exists in the world is your own mind, then you must reason those things yourself.
"TEMET NOSCE"
"Know thyself"
But I'll add something just as important:
"MUNDUM NOSCE."
"Know the world."
"Think lightly of yourself, deeply of the world." —Miyamoto Musashi, murderhobo.
@VideoCentral-bh9tf
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMIts one of those things that sounds interesting for a sec and then you go "oh, why should I care?"
@rekreator12e71
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI love your videos, but I'm trying to distance myself from politics, as they make me argue with people more, which I want to avoid. Thanks for teaching and entertaining me all this time, though, and good luck with YouTube.👍
@Dwhataboutit
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMGrendel, John Gardner.. this is why you pay attention in british literature
@abhmmh8892
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMI can tell before watching that "bad take" in this instance is just stuff you don't like. Sorry, but (my) facts don't care about your feelings.
@GNOMESARECOMINGFORYOu
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMOne thing I realized that I think you missed: Solipsism is actually self refuting. Because if you cant know anything outside of the existence of yourself… well then how can you know that you can't know anything outside the existence of yourself?
@DrakonPhD
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PM3:30 To be fair, we DID find that out solar system has way more ppanets then basically any other one we've found, which is neat evidence of fine tuning (more planets are needed for life to develop free from constant asteroid bombardment).
@nightside100
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMHey! ZOE! miss that game.
@Reesezhatena
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMWhile I’m sure there are some “terminally offended” who suffer from solipsistic thought patterns I imagine the vast majority of “terminally offended” people suffer from having issues detecting threats. Let me explain. There’s a fun little game people play called “plausible deniability” meaning there are some people who purposely attack you in a way that gives them deniability of their actions. Some people who are really sensitive tend to over analyze peoples actions looking for hidden threats. This is not a bug it’s a feature. Being able to detect hidden or camouflaged threats kept people alive and in good standing with their community. The problem is some people are not good at detecting threats so they assume everything is a threat
@fdav3537
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMis this what's with 'live your own truth'?
@meh.7640
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMso in conclusion i would say there are three types of solipsistic thinkers: r*tards, the mentally ill and little children.
@emanekaf145
02/19/2025 - 8:17 PMNot quite the same thing but has a similar vibe to it: there's a guy who has recently been popping up everywhere online, calling out Jordan Peterson and going on Joe Rogan's podcast (probably looking for publicity) who is a professor who is somewhere between solipsism and absolute constructionist. He doesn't believe anything is real or that true it possible, though he denies he believes that power is the only thing… then says exactly that in the next sentence. I don't remember his name, but he's one of the few people who actually make me angry to hear in some level because he's impossible to argue against. Each sentence that comes out of his mouth is full of sooooo many false assumptions and fallacies that you could write a dissertation on everything he says. If he is asked to prove anything or told he's wrong, he just "agrees" and says that nothing he says can be right or wrong because everything is a spook. Nothing is capital T true so therefore nothing is real and nothing matters (except for power). Everything is socially constructed, nothing is inherent, etc., etc., etc. He just uses sophistry and big academic-sounding words to assert that it's all very big-brain and deep, when it's just how an edgy kid thinks when their parents tell them to do something, hidden under a thin veil of "academia". "You can't ground me! You're not god! God isn't real! Nothing is real! Grounding is just a word; you have no power over me, mom and dad! You can't tell me what to do", except apply that type of thinking to a worldview and philosophy in general. I hate it.
Neil Degrasse Tyson is another person who I've grown to dislike strongly because he over-thinks simple concepts and actually gets further from the truth by making everything sound like it needs to be empirically proven.